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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06

1T is we'll to begin teaching writing the
ii-.. day the little child enters school as
il learns to recognize the first word in
reading, teach him also to recognise it in
script and to write, or at least try to sorite
it himself. In writing, as in reading,
teach suords instead of letters. The first
attempt of a little child in this work
will be almost failure-simply a crooked
mark. The second and third attempts
will present few moro "crooks" in the
line, and soon these "crooks" begin to
assume the shape of letters. He will
begin to notice that some letters are
taller than others, also that some have
round or loop tops, and others pointed.
All children love states and show sur
prising amount of patience in anything
connected with slate work. For teaching
spelling we have ruled blackboard, and
the children's states ruled to correspond.
"a word is written on the board, the
children first taught to trace it on the
board, then copy it on their states. From
words proceed to sentences, and soon the
children will be able to write whole
paragraphs from the reading lesson. AS
soon as the child's power of observation
is developed sufficiently to enable him to
distinguish With tolerable accuracy the
forms of letters, and shape few of them
himself, give him pen and paper. We
usually do this as soon as he can shape
the vowels and a few Of the stem letters.
True, the first pages will have countless
blots, but this very circumstance trains
to care and exactness. Unlike slatewcrk,
a mistake cannot be removed, and greater
care will be taken to notice carefully
before writing. But the amount'of writ
ing shown in the pupils copy-books is
only q fraction of the written work re.
CURED. Portions of the reading lesson,
stories from memory, descriptions OF
pictures, exercises in language, history
and geography, give a pleasant variety
of written work. In regard to teaching
spelling, we do this by writing entirely.
The youngest pupils write the words on
the ruled board aud divide into syllables,
the next higher grade do the same and
mark the accented syllable, other higher
grades mark the long and short sounds Of
yowels &c. The only objection 1 have
ever heard to this written spelling is that
it takes too much time; this is true-a
lesson in written spelling requiring three
times the length of time, as one in oral
spelling. BUTT is time wellapent, as the
results prove"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06
The Ghost was Human.

ALpHARErTA, GAsSept. 2S.-Calvin
Antry is lying at the home of his father,
Samuel A. Antry, at the point of death.
His forehead is crushed in, his nose is
smashed into a jelly, and his eyes are
protruding. Calvin met this misfortune
while trying to play the role Of. q ghost.
Samuel A. Antry is one of the wealthiest
farmers of Milton County, and as a con-
sequence his two sons, Calvin and Robert
aged, respectively, 81 and 1S, are in
much demand as possible husbands.
Notwithstanding this abundance Of ma
terial out of which to choose a wife,
both young men planted their affections
upon the same fair maiden, and vowed
that without her, life would be dreary
blank. The young lady herself was
perplexed by the attentions of the two
brothers, and did not know how to ex.
press her preference for either.
For the past Two weeks protracted ser
vices have been held in Clear Spring
Church, to which all the parties belong.
The young lady was escorted home every
night by the brother who first reached
her. On Tuesday night Robert secured
the honor Of the lady's company. It
was then that Calvin determined on a
revenge as novel as it was sepulchral.
There was deserted graveyard by which
the couple had to pass. Calvin hurried
forward, and, entering farm house on
the way, secured a sheet and then ran to
the grave yard. Winding the sheet
around his body he awaited the coming
of his rival.
Meantime Robert and his fair COM
panion, who were slowly walking down
the road, heard sepulchral groans. The
girl clinched Roberts arm tighter. A
figure in white was then seen to run
across the graveyard, bowling piteously.
Then, falling on all fours, it made to.
ward the passing couple. The girl
screamed and tainted. Robert could not
run and leave the girl on the road, 80 he
picked up a good-sized stone, sharp and
Jagged, and let it fly with unerring aim.
A scream of pain from the ghost told
that it was human. Robert ran up to it
and found that it was his own brother
whom he had so severely punished. The
girl was taken home in one wagon in
Mysteries. Calvin was taken to the home
of his father in another, bleeding and
unconscious. Robert is just now the
hero of the neighborhood for his bravery
for tackling such formidable ghost.
The wounded man was reported dying
to night.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06
A dispatch from Holly Spings,

- a ulSpatCu liViu hoAiy 6Pin6oj
Miss, ofsaturday, says: About 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon J. J. signan, and E.
S. Wilkerson, both powerful men, assault
ed n. W. Reynolds, editor of the Daily
Sun, beating him unraercifully on the
head and body with clubs and loaded
whip. Preston FAINT, son of the mayor,
attempted to prevent the bystanders from
stopping the row. This makes the second
attack on Reynolds, Tom Signan having
knocked him down yesterday. The
article in the Sun, which made its first
appearance on Thursday evening, was
particularly severe on saloon keepers, and
the mayor and aldermen have rendered
money freely to prosecute the offenders.
= The following called a railroad
problem, is going the rounds: A freight
train one mile in length stopped with the
caboose just opposite the depot. The
conductor got orders TO move his train to
the next station, which was just FIVE
miles distant. He gave the engineer the
order to move, which the latter did while
the conductor walked over head on top
of the cars and got there just as the en-
CINE arrived at the next station, where he
got off. The question is, how far did he
walk; or, as he was walking during the
entire five miles, did he ride at all?
- Little Tommy Ray had quarrel
with his sister, and would not kiss and be
friends. His aunt said, 20 don't you re-.
member what papa read at family pray.
ers this morning, that we were to forgive
seventy times seven?" eyes," replied
Tommy; "but I t;ckerlarIy noticed it was
to your brother, not sister!"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06
AGHE|{Rs GoL JMN.
81 q GLINKsCALEs, EDITOR.
s. rsaaAcHrRs' ASSOCIATION.

Eat Us insist that as many of our
teachers as can possibly do SO attend the
needing of the Association at Honea
Path On the 18th and 10th Of October.
We have ayery cordial invitation from
{ the good people Of that little yillsge to
hold the meeting there, and have, the
assurance chat every thing will be done
sto make the session pleasant and unusu-
ally profitable. Don't fail to be there.
You csn4 afford to stay away. Friday
afternoon will be spent in Prof Wat
skinss school. Our best teachers will
instruct his classes in the presence Of the
{ sAssociation. Criticisms and suggestions
win be made; and all viii sbe benefited.
al might've will have lecture or two
BY gentlemen Of ability. Don't fail to
attend. Homes will be provided and
seyers teacher issexpscted to be present.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06
ss;HolWaosrEACH How SPELLING And WRIT.

Cal y
One Of our teachers sends us the fol.
lowing paper on g How to Teach Spell.
ing and Writing. 2 The paper speaks
for itself. The young lady has our
thanks; she needs no words Of praise
! from usher success as q teacher is all
that is necessary to command for her
opinions on any department of school,
room work the closest attention. How
different is the art of teaching now from
what it used to be! Or rather how
different are the easthods employed now
from what they tiace we're. If there is
amy thing that our teachers ought to be
part ticulasly well Versed in it is the art Of
teaching little children to spell and write.
Who would Have thought in this County
twenty: Eve years lsgo Of teaching child
to spell while he learned TO write The
old plannas 10 teach children to spell
and raad and hen teach them to write,
OF 81 pssusss them t6z learn lit themselves
after taking the matter into their own
hands.
Tie writerof the paper below strikes
itexactly right when she speaks Of the
] peculiar delight little children find in
hand ipga pencil. frequently we have
besn lied How can interest and en-
tertsin the, smallest pupils? Our friend
answers the question and removes the
difficulty. Give the little one pencil
and blate. What if the marks are
crooked and ugly? They'll come right
after awhile.
And Nhp would have thought twenty.
aYei years agoo ruling a blackboard or
5aIatef Who would have thought of
ruling slate with a nail? just hear
let us ask Have you ever had your
patrons 10 object to your ruling their
childrens slatess We mean that ques-
sion. Have you? If you have, let us
knox It. We don't care to know who
atspazon il. but would like to know
how many people in Anderson County
would send for physician and tell him
J Just bow much medicine and how often
she must giye to the patient; We would
like "a knov how many there are who
would employ q lawyer and then tell him
& bnl hei must manage the case. But our
leadefs Nill pardon this digression. We
invite your special attention, to the very
ssnggestiyei paper below:
T6iIis the subject assigned me, and in
discussing II I vii! reverse it and give
ths 6st place writing, for the reason
that writing should precede spelling in
ssschoolwdrk. The Two subjects might
gsery veil be classed, as one, being too
[ sslossIy connscted TO be treated separately.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06

- Governor Richardson and his staff
have been invited to attend the Piedmont
Exposition at Atlanta and will probably
60. The Edgefeld Hussars and Green
vile Guards have signi6ed their intention
to attend the Piedmont Exposition.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06

We have in this Office number of
copies Of tho Carolina Teacher. Be sure
sitoscall sorssend and get acopy. They are
For distribution. We have time and
again called attention to this paper.
NO i've South Carolina teacher can afford
to be WithOusit..
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06

3 We have not forgotten our promise to
aeiye ths readers Of the Teachers Column
9an account Of our visit to the Mammoth
Cave, but have left il for future
conaide deration, believing other things to
sbe of more Importance. During this
idle tfme;with teachers, Ne thought our
time and space might be best given to
urging them to get ready for the work of
the next session. The more We think of
the matter the more: we are convinced of
thas crying demand for better teachers
The odds are against us We know: money
.is short other vocations are offering in.
sdncements that are constantly thinning
!! the ranks of our effective teachers, but
It'll We struggle on, hoping, and waiting
and believing that in this great struggle
against illiteracy, victory will come at
last, and the Heary, poorly paid teachers
may ground his armss and feel that he
/ hasf fought q good fight and conquered at
last.
Toiwhom does the honor of the great
victories won in the late war belong?
TO the commanders Of the victorious
armies altogether9 Nay, verify; but
rather TO the rank and file Of the army
10 those men who bore the heat and
~ -
burden Of the day. to those men who laid
their lives upon the altar of their coun-;
sflty. So III the great struggle between
ignorance and knowledge, truth and
falsehood, the honor belongs pot solely
the college presto dents and professors,
sbntto the thousands ofweary teachers
who are hitting blow after blow in the
thickest Of the fight. Many a soldier
sleeps IN Hollywood, at Richmond, to-
day, who was a. brave as Lee, or Jack
SON, sor Hill, or Stewart, and gave his
hearts best blood for the, cause he loved
.so.ReIl, hnt his unAinching heorism, his
devotion to dnty, is known only to his
Gid and 10 the comrades who saw him
:fall. Msnyza teacher whose best days
are being, given TO the fight against ignor-
sance may go down to his grave .sunwept,
tunhonored, and unsung,s but be erects
for himself . monument more lasting
than brass, he enshrines himself IN the
- y = -.
hearth Of his pupils.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06

The Trustees Of Centerville School
District tNo. s. wish to engage six
teacher four whites and two colored.
Teachers desiring situations will meet
the Board III the School Commissioners
sORes Thursday, October 18th, at 2
:9clocksp %. III.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-06


influences following in their train, is
concentrated and centralized at New
York. That is the apex or center of the
great revolving maelstrom of the fnan-
cial system. All other cities and towns
in the Union are but outposts OF receiy.
ing depots. The huge fortunes built up
in few years by individuals in and
about New York by some mysterious and
invisible process is the proof of a deep
seated disease in the body economic. A
few men by combination get control of
this irresistible money power, and can
and do depress and elevate the prices of
agricultural products at their pleasure.
A corner Gas it is called( is made in
wheat, or bacon, or lard, or cotton and
when the corner is dissolved and the
smoke clears away it will be discovered
that the unlucky producer has barely
escaped insolvency or has become q
bankrupt, while small syndicate at the
center has panned out one, or I've or,
maybe, ten millions of dollars. 1t is
here that the profits of farming so far as
the producer is concerned drop out, and
it is in the hands of these giant combina-
tions, made possible by this vicious sys.
tenn, that these profits lodge. The far.
mer has no more influence in fixing the
prices of his produce against this power
full combination than an infant has in
resisting or directing a cyclone. Nor
does the real value of the products tend
to fix their price. 1t is all artificial and
is disastrous to healthy economic life.
| The bulls and bears have no reputation
The St. Johns herald., 1887-08-18
Georre Washington. Awful Razor.

4 lady residing at Peoria, H., has in her possession the razor used by George Washington. The Saturday Evening Call of that oity thus describes it;
 "The razor consists of b ade about six inches long, an inch and a quarter wide, with very thick back, and ham, de composed of wood on one side and bone on the other. 1t Is heavy enough 10 cut a chickens head off at one bow, and looks as If it might al O be made useful as butchers cleaver. The art of making hollow-ground razors was ap- parently unknown in the days of tho H. tustrious George,
 "On looking at the implement and contemplating the torture that must have followed the daily use of 1t, one can no longer wonder at the f1rmly-set mouth, and the look of resolution that is apparent in every line of the hero's face as portrayed on the national postage stamp, He acquired that a>pect of in- domitable and unconquerable fortitude while using this same razor.
 "How any man with skin of less toughness than leather itself could ever use 1t is 0 mystery. Go and see that weapon and reflect upon the adamantine bravery that the great leader of tho Con- tinental armies possessed, of which his- lory makes no mention whatever. To face death in the shock of battle Is com paratively easy, but to submit ones self 10 being skinned alive daily is really the ordeal that is calculated to test the stun pf which man Is made"
The St. Johns herald., 1887-08-18
Canaaa,s Military Forces.

canada's army consists of military force of 36,0O0 men, not including the reserve militia. The force is sometimes spoken of as volunteers, sometimes a5 militia, but there is in reality 10 such difference.
 The force Is essentially Q volunteer force, composed of civilians from the towns and country, tho raised in the former being called city corps and in the latt 1T rural corps" The amount of drill required by the Militia act for each man Is about lG days in two years.
 Many of the rural corps are rot called out annually, and do no more drill than that required of them, while the city corps resemble much the volunteer corps of our large towns at home, and drill annually as arranged by their com mandlng officer.
 The men receive 50 cents (2s.) day for authorized drill. They are armed with the Snider rife.
 In addition to her militia. Canada possesses 8 regular force enlisted as soIdiers, and distributed in schoo s throughout the different Provinces for purposes of instruction, and composed as follows:
 Two schools of artillery, one at Quebec, tne at Kensington, elch pos sessing two field guns, 9-pounder, R. NIL; a cavalry school at Port Lewis, Quebec; and three infantry schools, viz, at Toronto, St. John, Province of Quebec. and Fredericton, New Bruns- wick. The tot1l strength of al schools combined cannot, by the Militia act, exceed 750 men. = [The United Ser Ylee, <, x--~- -
The St. Johns herald., 1887-08-18
B R A N D s
 OF THE Apache County
 Stock, Growers Association.

HENRY SMITH, Presi tent, springerviile, A. T. B. F, tRBY, Vicc- President, Eolbrook. A, T. WILL c. BARNES, Secretary and Treasurer. St.
 Joseph, A. T.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-08-18
HOW SOME WIVES GO TO SLEEP.

Revelations by Man Who Once Was Single. There Is an article going the rounds entitled, "How the Girls Go To Sleep" The manner in which they go to sleep, according to the article, can't hold a cIndle to the way married women so to sleep.
 Istead of thinking what she should have attended to before go ng to bed, she thinks of it afterward. While she IS re- yolyine these matters in her mind, and while snugIy tucked up in bed, the old man is scratching his head in front of the fire and wondering how he will pay The next months rent.
 Suddenly she exclaims: {
 "James, did you lock the door"
 "What doorT" says James.
 "The cellar door," says she. No" says James,
 "Well. you had better go down and lock it, for heard some one in the back yaid last night"
 Accordingly James paddles down the stairs and locks the door.
 About the time James returns and is going to bed she remarks: Ibid you shut the stair door? I PNo," says James.
 "Well, if it is not shut the cat will get up into the chamber.
 "Let her come up, then" says James, ill-naturedly.
 My goodness, no r' returns his wife; 1she'd suck the baby's breath"
 Then James paddles down stairs again and steps on tack, and closes the stair door, and speaks to himself of the cat, and returns to the bedroom.
 Just as he begins to climb into his couch his wife observes:
 "I forgot to bring up some water. Suppose you bring up some in the big tin."
 And SO James. with a muttered solilo- nuy. goes down into the dark kitchen and falls over 0 chair and raps all the tinware off the wall in search of the "tin, and then jerks the stair door oI en and howls:
 "Where the deuce are the matches"
 She gives him minute directions where to find the matches, and adds that she would rather go and get the water her self than have the whole nelghoorhood raised about 1t; after which James lines the matches. procures the water ana Comes up stairs and plunges lnto Deo'
 Presently his wife says:
 "James' let's have an understanding about money matters. Now, next week I've got to pay"
 "I don't know what you'll have to pay and don't care" shouts James, as he lurches around and jams his face against the wall, "all want is sleep"
 That's all very well for ycu," snaps his wife as she pulls the covers vicious ly; "you never think of the wor. y and trouble have. And there is Araminta, Yho believe is taking the measles"
 "Let her take 'em," says James.
 Hereupon she begins to cry softly, but about the time James Is falling into gentle sleep she punches him in the ribs with her elbows and says:
 "Did you hear the scandal about Mrs. Jones?"
 "Where?" says James slecpily.
 "Why, Mrs. Jones'"
 WhereT- T-inquires James.
 "I declare" said his wifi, "you are sEet ing more stupid every day; You know Mrs. Jones that lives at PIP Vel, day before yesterday Susan Smith told Mrs. Thompson that Sam Barker had said that Mrs. Jones had" ~ Here she paused and listened. James is snoring in profound slumber.
 With snort of rage she pulls all the covers of him, wraps up in them, and lies awake until 9 A. N. thinking how badly used she is.
 And this is the way some married wo- men go to sleep.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-08-18

| EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. | J l. Hulsey. Nutr;oSO. II Huning Show Low K Morrison. Esqu:dillaNat Greer Woodruff | C Howe, NayaJO Jas Flake, snowflake
 St George Creaghe, SpringervilIe.
The St. Johns herald., 1887-08-18
.IvE STOCK sANIrARY coMMIssIoNERs oE ARlz

The Association will pay a re ward of $250 for the arrest and con- viction of any person stealing stock belonging to it's members,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-11-24

Look at the portrait Of Washington.
ALI that is great in firmness. patience
and heroism is stamped upon his nose,
which Is the true aquiline. yelling.
tons nose was of the same type. and
so was Julius Caesars. and each pos.
sessed the same characteristics OF
patient courage and heroic frmnesS
that belonged to Washington.
The wide-nostriled nose betokens
strong powers of thought and love for
serious meditation, and these you see
in the portraits of Bacon. Shaks-
pere. Franklin and DR.. johnson, and
in others of our great students and
writer's.
The French have a great deal to
say on the nose. Every French biog-
rapher is sure to do the nose of his hero
and heroine and tell all about it. re-
ioicing if it is comedy one and ex-
planning away its defects if it is not.
One of Edmund About's most enter
tanning novels is called 1.-The Nose of
Notary" 1t was Pascal who said
that if the nose of Cleopatra had been
shorter the whole face of the world
would have been changed. Anthony
would never have fallen in love with a
snub-nosed woman. Cupid has gen.
orally ignored the existence of the
feminine nose. He compliments her
brow, her eyes, her cheeks. and even
her ears. but her nose never, or hardly
ever-London Exchange.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-11-24
Ohio Men at WASHINGTON.

The finest houses in Washington are
owned by Ohio men. Colonel Ander-
sons, at the corner of K and Sixteenth
streets. has for years been one of the
''show places" of the city. Another,
at the corner of Sixteenth and H streets.
is owned by Colonel john Hay, who
moved to Washington from Cleveland
about two years ago. The third. and
perhaps the finest will be ready for
occupancy this winter. 1t is situate
on X street, next door to the house
where w. NJ. Evarts lived when Sec
rotary of State under Hayes, and where
his daughter dispensed to thousands
the celebrated '.Evarts chocolate.
This new place is the property of B.
H. Warder. formerly of Spring feld. O.,
where he amassed fortune as man.
ufacturer-a fortune to which he has
since added by prudent real-estate
ventures in Washington. - Chicays
New&